Canelo-Trout

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) isn’t worried about the flat-footed fighting style of his opponent WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) for their fight this Saturday night.

Trout is more concerned with the skills that the 22-year-old Canelo has than his plodding style of fighting because he understands completely the type of fighter Canelo is because he’s been in with his types many, many times in the past. It’s the Chavez Jr. style of fighting, and he knows how to defeat that style.

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By Dan Ambrose: This Saturday night we’re going to see Golden Boy Promotions “Golden Goose” WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) plucked clean by WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) in what I see as a lopsided shutout 12 round decision for the 27-year-old Trout at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

This is going to be the second schooling that we’ve seen in consecutive weeks. Last Saturday night we saw Guillermo Rigondeaux nearly pitch a shutout over HBO darling Nonito Donaire in New York, and now we’re about to see Golden Boy’s #1 fighter Canelo get completed plucked by Trout to where the Golden Goose, as Trout calls him, is stopped from laying the golden eggs temporarily.

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By Dan Ambrose: This Saturday night WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) and WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) will be facing each other at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

A crowd of close to 40,000 fans is expected to attend the fight and very, very few of them are going to be rooting for the 27-year-old Trout. However, Trout doesn’t care because he realizes the crowd has no bearing to what happens in the ring and he’s not going to fall apart just because the fans are cheering for the 22-year-old Canelo.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) maintains that Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya didn’t want WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s), who Trout sometimes refers to as Golden Boy’s “Golden Goose,” to fight him. Trout sees that as a sign that Schaefer and De La Hoya don’t have confidence Canelo.

Trout said “I know, as you know, De La Hoya and Richard Schaefer tried to not make this fight happen at every turn…They tried hard not to make a fight, but I wonder how they must feel for him knowing that your team doesn’t have the utmost confidence in you. I don’t know that feeling. My team believes in me.”

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By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions has done a good job of shielding WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) from quality opposition since they started promoting him, and they’ve even did a great job of getting him the WBC 154 pound title by having him fight a welterweight in Matthew Hatton instead of an actual top junior middleweight.

The way that Golden Boy has built Canelo up has been nothing short of brilliance. Unfortunately, Canelo will be taking his first true test of his career when he faces an actual junior middleweight instead of a welterweight in WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout on April 20th at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) fully expects the large crowd at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas to be fully behind their hero WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) in their fight on April 20th.

Thus far, Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions is reporting that 35,000 tickets has already been sold for this unification bout and by the night of the fight 10 days from now, we could see more than 40,000 boxing fans in attendance with likely 99% of them Canelo fans.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) has a rematch clause in his contract with WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) in case Canelo loses their April 20th fight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The interesting part is that if Canelo loses the fight, he gets an immediate rematch with Trout, but if Trout loses, he doesn’t get a rematch.

Louie Burke, the trainer for Trout, said to the elpasotimes.com “There is a rematch clause in the contract. If Canelo wins, there is no rematch. But, if Austin wins, there is a rematch clause for Canelo.”

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) doesn’t understand WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s goal of beating him and then handing Trout’s WBA strap to his brother Rigoberto Alvarez, who Trout soundly beat by a 12 round unanimous decision two years ago.

Trout said to RingTV “I hear that he wants to take my belt and give it to his brother [Rigoberto]. I’m like, ‘Why?’ His brother didn’t deserve his belt either. Is that an Alvarez tradition? He’s not going to get my belt.”

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By Dan Ambrose: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) says there’s no question in his mind that he’s going to beat WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) on April 20th and make him pay for having beaten his brother Rigoberto Alvarez two years ago.

Canelo says he was at that fight and he was very unhappy that all he could do was watch without helping his brother out. Trout beat Rigoberto by a 12 round unanimous decision in one of Trout’s easier fights of his career.

Canelo said to Showtime: “You could say the revenge is about blood. When I saw him at the press conference, I wanted to fight him already to see who’s better. It’s personal because Trout won against my brother.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) doesn’t see himself having any problems beating the younger 22-year-old, flat-footed WBC 154 lb. title holder Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KO’s) in two weeks in their fight on Showtime at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas.

A crowd of 35,000 is expected for the 72,000 seat arena, but Trout isn’t worried about Canelo’s fans changing the outcome out of the fight as long as none of them are allowed in the ring to help him out when things start going downhill for the Mexican fighter.

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